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Planting onion sets for Spring!
It’s here again: Spring. Official! Well, not quite official… but March 8th is good enough for me. Spring means planting onion sets and potatoes. So I made a start on the onions today by planting four...
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Onion sets sending up shoots
The onion sets are sprouting nicely. Only three got pulled up by birds, which is a result; most years I can count on replanting 30% thanks to the magpies. Less good news is that weeds are already...
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Planting the first earlies… at last
I’ve waited for this for what feels like a year. I’ve been desperate to get the bloody potatoes in, but Life has conspired against me for weeks. It was a lovely afternoon, but Nature is slow to bestir...
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Of onions and volcanoes
Wretched climate. It’s astonishing how it can be so warm (18C yesterday), yet everything look so lifeless. I planted these onion sets three weeks ago; they’re making very slow and feeble growth. Might...
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How to plant onion sets
Right. For all of you folks wanting to know how to plant onion sets…. here it is. The ultimate, definitive ‘how to’. (For those of you wondering what I’m on about, trust me: there are LOADS of people...
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Onion sets are away
I always find this effect vaguely amusing. As onion sets start to sprout, the outer skin often detaches itself and ends up sitting on the new shoot like a bishop’s mitre. The onions are loving the...
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